Infrastructure

From the beginning of January, Tallinn is the first capital in the EU to provide free public transport to its citizens. To be entitled to freely use public transport in Tallinn, citizens of Tallinn have to purchase the so-called ‘green card’ (EUR 2) and personalise it. People from outside Tallinn can also buy the ‘green card’ which enables them to load the needed amount of money to use public transport. Since the implementation of free public transport, a significant increase of the number of registered Tallinners can be observed. Read more

Free public transport, accessible to everyone, can and will help to overcome social exclusion and resolve social, ecological and global problems in a democratic and sustainable manner. Public transport must be funded fairly based on a spirit of solidarity and that it therefore must be fought for. To achieve this, violence-free radicalism in defending, democratizing and appropriating public goods is indispensable.

A new NGO called A Human Right is campaigning “Buy this Satellite” to raise $150K in a bid to buy one of the world’s highest capacity communications satellites from its bankrupt owners in order to re-task it to supply Internet access to the world’s poorest people. They plan on building their own super-cheap satellite modems as well. Read more